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...there are exotic trains still in ser vice. The Trans-Siberia Express is running, though there is a strong possibility of having a lady commissar as your sleepermate. Angola's Benguela line, whose locomotives are the world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and down mountainsides, as does Chile's Antofagasta & Bolivia. The great Sud Express from Paris to Madrid - with a stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star...
...moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...
...leaders of the U.W.C. expected that the strike would be successful enough to bring down the Faulkner coalition. Day by day, however, more and more workers stayed away from their jobs, and both industry and domestic services slowed to a near halt. Grocery stores ran out of food, ser vice stations emptied their gasoline tanks, and electric power was cut to one-fourth of normal output. By the end of two weeks, the strikers were so fully in control that they were regulating what little rural commerce remained and had stopped the refueling of airplanes at airports. As an added...
...Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate problem, don't you think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt's financial situation damn soon?" Particularly helpful were readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...
Although President Nixon has agreed to pay $432,787 in back taxes as assessed by the Internal Revenue Ser vice, his tax problems are not over. At the specific request of the IRS, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski will apparently ask a federal grand jury to decide whether Nixon's tax advisers, Attorney Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, should be charged with fraud. DeMarco, at least, is not likely to accept the full blame under any such accusation. At the same time, IRS Commissioner Donald Alexander, by will ingly declaring that Nixon had not been accused of fraud himself...